What is Tau?Tau is the true free Claude Code agent. It gives you a full agentic Claude Code environment - tools, MCP servers, hooks, skills, file editing, shell execution, and session control - without locking you into one paid route.
It is not a proxy and not a wrapper around someone else's wrapper. Tau has native adapters for 14 providers, built to make them work directly inside your agentic Claude Code environment. When you use Gemini, Tau speaks Gemini's API directly. Same for OpenAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, AgentRouter, and the rest.
You install it once. You type
. You pick a provider. You work.
That's it: plug and play with one command and one login flow. No shell configuration. No export statements. No environment variable archaeology. A first-run wizard handles credentials and saves them. Cross-platform — Windows, macOS, Linux.
Why does this exist?Because Anthropic rate limits are real, and sometimes you just want to say hi to your terminal without getting a 429 back.
Tau lets you swap providers mid-session. Anthropic giving you the cold shoulder? Switch to Kimi K2.6. Still need the agent loop, the file editing, the bash execution, the MCP servers, the hooks? You have all of it. Nothing changes except who's doing the thinking.
And here's the part that actually matters: you can work with any provider - Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Cline, Cursor, KiloCode, Kiro, GitHub Copilot - without any of them installed on your machine. Not downloaded, not configured, not even present. Tau brings the runtime. You bring the auth most of them or API key.
That's the point. Same experience. Different brain. Zero dependencies on the original tool.
https://github.com/AbdoKnbGit/tau
It is not a proxy and not a wrapper around someone else's wrapper. Tau has native adapters for 14 providers, built to make them work directly inside your agentic Claude Code environment. When you use Gemini, Tau speaks Gemini's API directly. Same for OpenAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, AgentRouter, and the rest.
You install it once. You type
Code:
/loginThat's it: plug and play with one command and one login flow. No shell configuration. No export statements. No environment variable archaeology. A first-run wizard handles credentials and saves them. Cross-platform — Windows, macOS, Linux.
Why does this exist?Because Anthropic rate limits are real, and sometimes you just want to say hi to your terminal without getting a 429 back.
Tau lets you swap providers mid-session. Anthropic giving you the cold shoulder? Switch to Kimi K2.6. Still need the agent loop, the file editing, the bash execution, the MCP servers, the hooks? You have all of it. Nothing changes except who's doing the thinking.
And here's the part that actually matters: you can work with any provider - Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Cline, Cursor, KiloCode, Kiro, GitHub Copilot - without any of them installed on your machine. Not downloaded, not configured, not even present. Tau brings the runtime. You bring the auth most of them or API key.
That's the point. Same experience. Different brain. Zero dependencies on the original tool.
https://github.com/AbdoKnbGit/tau
